A real watch dog

　　A blind man walked into a bank with his seeing-eye dog that guided him everywhere. He walked into the center of the bank floor, took the dog by the chain, and started swinging him around his head.

　　Everyone stopped what they were doing and stared. The other customers were taken aback and some were very upset at the way the animal was being treated. One of the tellers ran up to the blind man and asked, "Sir, what are you doing!?!"

　　The man turned toward the teller and said, "Oh, nothing - just looking around."

Call on an Expert

　　Little Johnny was playing with his father's wallet when he accidently swallowed a quarter. He went crying to him mum, choking on the quarter. They took him to a doctor, who said that the quarter was impossible to remove without surgery, they consulted a specialist who was of the same opinion. Then came a man who said he could get the money out in a jiffy. He turned little Johnny upside down and patted him with great precision on the back of neck and, sure enough, the quarter rolled out. Everyone was amazed, the father said “You must be an expert!” The man replied, “No sir I'm just a tax collector.” 

Mr　Ted

　　Four years ago, when Mr Ted was sixty, he retired. He left the restaurant in which he had worked for forty-three years and returned to his home village. There he bought a small piece of farm and planted a lot of apples trees in it. He took good care of them and this year there were plenty of apples in the trees. The old man was very happy.

　　But these days the old man had been worried. Nearly every night this garden is broken into and plenty of apples had been lost. So he decided to do his best to catch the thief himself. Last night he sat in a tree and carefully watched who would come and pick the apples. At midnight, Mr Ted was so tired that he went to sleep. Suddenly some noise woke him up. The noise came from a big tree. He went there gently and saw a boy standing under the tree with a bag full of apples. At once he recognized he was Tom who lives just next to him.

　　“How can you do that, Tom?” the old man became angry and shouted. “I’ll tell your father about it!” But the boy wasn’t afraid about it. He looked up and called out, “Have you heard yet, Dad? Mr Ted has something to talk to you.”

1. When Mr Ted was ______, he began to work in the restaurant.

   A. four                      B. seventeen

   C. forty-three                D. sixty

2. Mr Ted planted lots of apple trees in the farm because ______.

   A. he had been a gardener before

   B. he likes the fruit very much

   C. he’s strong enough to do something useful

   D. he had already retired

3. Mr Ted was happy several days ago because ______.

   A. he came back to his home village

   B. he had bought a farm in his village

   C. the apple trees grew very well

   D. he would pick many apples in autumn

4. Mr Ted sat in the tree ______.

   A. to catch the thief

   B. to pick some apples

   C. to watch it carefully

   D. to have a good sleep

5. As ______, Mr Ted shouted to the boy.

   A. he wanted to send Tom to the police

   B. he wanted to tell Tom’s father about it

   C. he wanted to frighten Tom

   D. he wanted Tom to pay for the apples

6. Tom wasn’t afraid because______.

   A. his father had brought him to the farm

   B. the old man was kind to him

   C. the old man would let him go

   D. he would return the apples to Mr Ted

答案：1. B  2. C  3. D  4. A  5. C  6. A

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